More Ohio Shenanigans?

Wow, how about finding loopholes for your players. Using a fund to help distressed students (those that need to get home in an emergency or medical issues) to pay for auto repairs for an athlete. Guess where the repairs took place: Auto Direct. Yes, the same place every Bucknut and his mother bought a car from.

If this isn't LOIC I can't imagine how corrupt a school must be to get that tag. Especially because everything that comes out just seems like a small portion of what is really there. Sadly we will probably never know all that happened and who knew about it. And they will not be punished as severely as they deserve.

It seems as though every media outlet in the country can dig up a little dirt on Ohio State and yet their compliance department remains oblivious. The buckeyes have been taking one dong punch after another for months now.

The best thing about this is that the Columbus media are actually going out of their way to dig up more dirt. I have been hoping for this forever, but especially since the Freep jihad. It looks like they are finding a lot more than 15 minutes of stretching in Columbus, too.

The $600 might not sound like much, but if the compliance officer signed off on it, there would be documented involvement of the staff in giving illegal benefits.

Besides, it's not like Pryor couldn't have gotten a "loaner" to take home.

and JT is how they pissed in the face of the NCAA and these players still managed to play in a bowl game. They made the NCAA look as dirty as OSU. Gene Smith must be a man of high morals and character because the NCAA choose him to head up the selection committee for the Men's NCAA National Basketball Championship. IMO, OSU is a joke and the NCAA sits right beside them. The problem isn't always the kid (OSU) sometimes it's their parents(NCAA). So while most college fans get hung up on what this team(kid) or that team(kid) is getting away with, maybe-just maybe , it's time to look at the authority figures as the problem.

This connects the final dot to Gene Smith's door. Because, there is no chance Auto Direct is coincidentally the beneficiary of all the largess. The dots spell LOIC, and lets me know Gene Smith not only was a serial endorser of Tressel's previous "unacceptable" violations, but an inventor of new transgressions in a sort of who can out-do whom endeavor. No doubt the previous A.D. felt the pressure exerted by the popularity of "Notorious J" (Tressel), and decided he had enough. So, in comes "Biggy GS" too smart by half.

There would be universal outrage about all the circumstantial evidence at this point; except for the types who believe the Mafia does a lot of good works and desevres at least some support from Ohio High School Coaches whose "Athletics" programs may have benefitted significantly from donations, recruits, or bowl appearances.

If this were all nothing but perfume, one would buy one bottle, then dilute it for the rest of your life. You can't get rid of the smell, and the scent grows stronger the more you leave it on without washing it off thoroughly.

On second thought, my apologies to the Mafia; the Mafia does not nor has it ever purported to be "Molders of Men".

If this happened in April, the NCAA should see this as an absolute spit in the face, an "I dare you to punish us for this", if you will. This snowball was in full "roll" effect and the investigation well underway when they were still giving TP money. I hope the NCAA takes this into consideration next month.